Didn't he claim to know who the next Doctor was after Matt Smith left? It was his role as Richard, the hen-pecked husband of Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge) for which he was best known. He produced more than 20 albums in a variety of styles. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk. Death date: Their daughter, Rebecca, co-founder of the Literary Consultancy, died in 2017. 2023 BBC. RSC veteran was best known for starring as the beleaguered husband of Hyacinth Bucket in the BBC sitcom, and also appeared in Doctor Who Actor Clive Swift, who played Hyacinth Bucket's beleaguered husband Richard in Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 82, his family has confirmed. [3] Cook commented in 2017 that the interview had to be approved by Russell T Davies and Julie Gardner in order to be printed, and suspected they allowed it because Swift had been a "sod" on set. Actor Clive Swift, known to millions as Hyacinth Bucket's hen-pecked husband Richard in BBC One's 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, has died aged 82. Radio 2 said Reverend Ruth Scott died peacefully in Southampton General Hospital on 20 February, aged 60. K2k Posts: 200. First one that springs to mind is Christopher H. Bidmead with DWM where he gives his frank and honest opinions of NuWho and they are not complimentary. Clive J Finch known as CJ in his youth was a human conspiracy theorist who collected information on the Doctor and ran a conspiracy website, Doctor Who?. RIP, Clive. Clive Smith stars in Doctor Who - Voyage Of The Damned, Clive starred in a number of roles from 1971 to 2017 - including an alien in Doctor Who, He was best known for being long-suffering Richard Bucket in the British television series Keeping Up Appearances. Clive Walter Swift was born in Liverpool in 1936, the second of four children to Abram Swift, and Lillie (ne Greenman), the owners of a Bootle furniture shop. ", He later added: "Why should I do this? What a silly question., Access unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows with Amazon Prime Video Sign up now for a 30-day free trial. Birth date: Considering the amount of direct Twitter links DS uses, I'm surprised this hasn't been abused before. Author Andrea Levy, best known for her novel Small Island, died on 14 February, aged 62. I should have been a little bit more responsible and not allowed that." "you have a duty of care. His first professional acting job was at Nottingham Playhouse, in the UK premiere of JB Priestleys take the Fool Away, in 1959. DIGITAL SPY, PART OF THE HEARST UK ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK. "That show is the only proper money I've earned: he admitted. The episode later became the subject of a viral moment when the actor was interviewed by Doctor Who magazine and came across as rather grumpy. As it was Christmas Eve, the Doctor decided to give him a quick trip. So the first thing I had to do, as far as the writer allowed me, was to fight back to protest. His family fled for their lives, screaming. Grunewald, one of America's top middle-distance runners, died on 11 June at her home after inspiring many with a long fight against cancer. He was previously married to Margaret Drabble. (This is nothing Tom hasn't strongly hinted at himself!) ", And when the writer asked him about his character in the show, he retorted: "You don't need me to tell you that. Clive Walter Swift (9 February 1936-1 February 2019) was an English actor who played Mr Jobel in Revelation of the Daleks and Mr Copper in Voyage of the Damned.He was due to play Gilbrook in the Big Finish audio story Creatures of Beauty, but was forced to pull out due to a family illness. As well as playing poor Richard, Clive starred in a number of roles from 1971 to 2017 - including an alien in Doctor Who. How about you guys, awkward interviews spring to mind ? Place of origin: Shorthand? Most journalists experience their fair share of bad interviews over their careers, but spare a thought for the one who had to interview a very grumpy Doctor Who star many moons ago. Clive Swift, the character actor, who has died aged 82, was a stylish, incisive and distinctive member of the original Royal Shakespeare Company in its heyday before becoming a familiar supporting . An unearthed interview with the late Clive Swift revealed that he had become bored with his iconic character Richard Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. Clive Finch Died 1 February 2019, in London, aged 82. . The Sowetan later described the Rand Daily Mail under Louw as the "first white newspaper to regard blacks as human beings. "Because it was a global success, it's given me a good pension that I might never have had.". A sad loss.https://t.co/cbT2ZwzQHV. Actor Clive Swift, known to many as the long-suffering Richard Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances, has died. Main actor: Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift in Pebble Mill interview in 1993 I'm not getting paid, am I? He is survived by Drabble and their sons Adam, professor of political theory at University College London, and Joe, a garden designer, presenter of BBC TV's Gardener's World and Times columnist. He was due to play Gilbrook in the Big Finish audio story Creatures of Beauty, but was forced to pull out due to a family illness. When Cook replied, "Maybe, but it means a lot to a great many of us," Swift terminated the interview. Most journalists experience their fair share of bad interviews over their careers, but spare a thought for the one who had to interview a very grumpy Doctor Who star many moons . An unearthed interview with the late Clive Swift revealed that he had become bored with his iconic character Richard Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances. However, at the end of the interview, Swift tells the writer: "There's no reason why I should talk to you at all, so you shouldn't push it. (PROSE: Rose), By 2005, Clive was maintaining a website, Doctor Who?, focused on the mysterious Doctor who kept appearing throughout recorded history. Stars: Eric Saward, Clive Swift, Graeme Harper, Trevor Cooper. What is the most awkward interview in the shows history? He was persuaded by the quality of the scripts by Roy Clarke, who had written Last of the Summer Wine, and by the chemistry he found with Routledge. At least they are frank and honest about their experiences with the show and both did return to Dr Who after appearing during its low period. I'm sure you'll write something very nice. She cant hate it that much, or she wouldnt have done DVD commentaries or Big Finish. Despite keeping her black ancestry a secret, she failed to break through in Hollywood but remained a stalwart of her professional home New Yorks theatreland, South African footballer who was part of a new era of sport after apartheid died on 13 January, aged 49. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. (PROSE: The Persistence of Memory). Clive Walter Swift was born in Liverpool in 1936, the second of four children to Abram Swift, and Lillie (ne Greenman), the owners of a Bootle furniture shop. pic.twitter.com/uNkcOyWa29, Loved this extremely talented, subtle actor. The Monkees singer Peter Tork died on 21 February, aged 77. On 24 December 1975, when Clive was fourteen, he encountered the Twelfth Doctor at a newsagent's and followed him into his TARDIS after noticing that he was using coins from 1987. Born in Liverpool in 1936, he had three children with his ex-wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble. The celebrated writer of 11 novels was known for her searing works about slavery and the experiences of black women, including 1987s Beloved, the story of a runaway female slave for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction the following year. Man died after being run over while asleep on strangers driveway, Londons most valuable house could be yours if you have a spare 300,000,000, Note in chimney tells couple their house was 100 times cheaper 50 years ago, Police hunt after man set on fire in London attack, Stranger Things stage show coming to the West End and consider us spooked, who passed away this morning at the age of 82, Do not sell or share my personal information. Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, Humans who have been inside the Doctor's TARDIS. After graduating, his first night on stage as a professional actor, at Nottingham Playhouse in the premiere of JB Priestley's Take The Fool Away in 1959, was a disaster. This content is imported from Twitter. (PROSE: Rose), Clive studied at Durham University where he was a part of a UFO society. He died after a short illness on February 1, 2019, aged 82, Disclaimer: These citations are created on-the-fly using primitive parsing techniques. Wasn't Will Wheaton all over Doctor Who at one point? The actor died on Friday morning after a short . EDIT: Link to the Clive Swift interview https://forums.digitalspy.com/discussion/2250386/clive-swift-grumpy-interview but cant find the Chris Bidmead one. Just hit 'Like' on our Digital Spy Facebook page and 'Follow' on our @digitalspy Twitter account and you're all set, The Mandalorian's Pedro Pascal on season 3, Neighbours announces seven more returning cast. Keeping Up Appearances was first aired in 1990 and ran for five years, but Swift was initially reluctant to accept the part. Thats what I perform. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. His elder brother, David (obituary, May 26, 2016), also became an actor and was best known as the irascible newsreader Henry Davenport in the TV comedy Drop the Dead Donkey. He spent two and a half years at Arsenal, becoming the first Spaniard to win the English championship, before joining Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Benfica. What's he waiting for? Clive Swift He was not habitually so chippy and he was widely admired and respected by colleagues for creating the Actors Centre, which he established in the late 1970s as a central London clubhouse and exchange for members who were "between jobs". Dame Patricia said she was "deeply saddened" to hear of her former co-star's death. He showed Rose photographs and drawings of the incarnation she had met, taken at several different points in history. Have you read the script? I must have missed those DVDs, 'cause I haven't heard many people say that. There are much bigger things than this.". Apparently this interview caused RTD to remove Mr Copper from The Stolen Earth cause RTD didn't like how the magazine was disrespected by him. (PROSE: Rose), As a child, Clive was interested in a variety of mysteries, including Big Foot, Sasquatch, the Mary Celeste, yeti, the Bermuda Triangle, the Loch Ness Monster, the Roswell crash and the panthers of Dartmoor. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company who enjoyed a lengthy career in film and television, Swift . DeSantis won't say he's running. He was not enormously successful in the face of Hyacinth's relentless social climbing. Digital Spy participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means we may get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links to retailer sites. Swift, who spent 10 years at the RSC. (REF: Big Finish: The Inside Story). Born 9 February 1936, in Liverpool. Revelation of the Daleks & Voyage of the Damned If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page - we'd love to hear from you. Clive Swift was born on 9 February 1936 in Liverpool, England, UK. I think they give a much better picture of Who history rather than. The ones who are obviously so aggravated by the interviewee that they just say "fuck it, I'm printing what you actually said and if it makes you look like a tosspot then that's your tough luck". Living with Hyacinth will do that to you. 21h. Second, also with DWM, is with Clive Swift (Mr. Copper, Voyage of the Damned) who hated being interviewed solely for this one role and started asking about money for the interview, mid interview. Astute and observational, Hardys comedy was fuelled by his political passion, Literary editor and novelist who won the Costa Award for biography, aged 91, died on 23 January, aged 101. "Sometimes I tell them to f*** off. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) 2022 . Clive told her that "the Doctor" was held to be a title handed down from father to son, but he believed that the Doctor was an immortal alien. It kind of comes across in his 4th year, I think. He also had a minor part in Alfred Hitchcock's film Frenzy (1972) and was unceremoniously put in his place by the great man when he tried to discuss the nuances of his role. Reddit's Doctor Who Fan Community - News, Discussion, Artwork and Fan Creations! Seemed to pull it together in Season 16 (love him in that year) and varied from brilliant to silly and self-indulgent in Season 17. He was an actor, known for Excalibur (1981), Frenzy (1972) and Keeping Up Appearances (1990). Clive J Finch known as CJ in his youth was a human conspiracy theorist who collected information on the Doctor and ran a conspiracy website, Doctor Who?. Clive Swift, who has died aged 82, believed that unemployment was as natural, and possibly even as necessary, a part of an actor's life as employment, enabling him to experience, feel and think. The journalist who conducted the interview revealed that the piece had to be okayed before it went to print, saying that senior heads such as Russell T Davies approved. Read about our approach to external linking. Canadian Jean Vanier founder of L'Arche communities poses for a photograph after he received the Templeton Prize at St Martins-in-the-Fields church in London. "So the first thing I had to do was to fight back! As a member of the RSC, he earned early critical praise in William Gaskills revival of Cymbeline, with Vanessa Redgrave as Imogen, and later for the 1966 production of The Tempest, in which he starred as Caliban opposite Timothy Wests Prospero. He did a pretty unresponsive interview with. Actor: Excalibur. The 79-year-old, along with his brother Charles, poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the political and lobbying system promoting a conservative agenda. There are much bigger things than this." An interview with Doctor Who Magazine about his appearance in the second one, Voyage of the . Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison died at the age of 88 on August 6. She was 97. Gary Jonathan Finch Some of the hundreds of readers of his website who sent in their experiences about the Doctor addressed Clive directly; Josiah Rowe offered to find a scanner so he could send Clive a photograph and a letter from his grandfather from the First World War, A. Fergus asked if the Doctor was some sort of vigilante, and rewboss wrote that he wasn't sure if Clive was a conspiracy theorist while dismissing any notion of the Doctor being part of a conspiracy. Keeping Up Appearances was the only TV sitcom he did, yet in the minds of many he was typecast forever as Richard Bucket. Serious-minded Shakespearean actor who felt slightly cursed by the TV sitcom role with which he became most associated, Clive Swift, above, with Keeping Up Appearances co-star Patricia Routledge in 1991 and, below, on his wedding day in 1960. Clive Swift is a very distinguished actor with a fantastic range of credits. The following interview is doing the rounds on Twitter and DS have added a clickbaity article. Spanish footballer Jose Antonio Reyes died in a car crash at the age of 35. First one that springs to mind is Christopher H. Bidmead with DWM where he gives his frank The following interview is doing the rounds on Twitter and DS have added a clickbaity article here: The original twitter account wasn't very happy and has renamed his account "Digital Spy Smells" so it appears on all their twitter links in the . Clive Swift, who rose to fame as Richard, the long-suffering husband of Hyacinth Bucket, in BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearancea died on 1 February, aged 82, Standup comedian and Radio 4 panellist who skewered the establishment for decades died on 1 February, aged 57. Clive Swift was born on February 9, 1936 in Liverpool, England, UK. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. His final screen appearance came in 2017, starring as Felix Hope in Midsomer Murders. What is the most awkward interview in the shows history? They expect me to be as nice and placid as Richard, and I'm really not like that.". ", He later did lighten up, revealing: "It wasn't until we'd been filming for two weeks that I realised that Mr Copper is an alien!". Vanier, a Canadian religious figure whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled in multiple countries over the past half-century, has died Tuesday May 7, 2019 in Paris after suffering from thyroid cancer at 90. I do it with a young girl, I tell stories about my career. Her deft touch and ear for intention nurtured the talents of writers she championed, such as Jack Kerouac and Jean Rhys, Afro-jazz star whose music brought Zimbabweans together died on 23 January, aged 66. Clive Swift - Grumpy Interview. I call it Richard Bucket Overflows because Im rather fed up with people thinking of me as Richard from Keeping Up Appearances, which they often do., When asked if, 12 years after the show ended, he was still called out by his character name in the street, he bluntly responded: Sometimes. Want up-to-the-minute entertainment news and features? I'm sure you'll write something very nice. His amour-propre was further offended when in 2004 the actor Simon Callow referred to his alma mater Clifton as "a minor public school"' Swift wrote to the newspaper that had run the comment to protest that in his day it had been "one of the elite schools allowed to play annually at Lord's". Have You Seen This Man? pic.twitter.com/ltEjMCgyzV, "Don't you know shorthand?" If youd like to join in, please sign in or register. Clive stared at it with a look of cold submissiveness, knowing he was about to be killed, (TV: Rose) and was shot. A dozen years after Keeping Up Appearances had finished, he took to the road with a one-man show called Richard Bucket Overflows. So sorry to hear that Clive Swift has https://t.co/oAU3ugJwFC condolences to his family and to his son Joe. That's what I perform. (PROSE: The Persistence of Memory), Clive went on to investigate his father's death and learn of the Daleks and the Doctor, the latter of whom he made his lifelong mission to fully understand and to solve the mystery of their numerous incarnations across time. At Clifton College, Bristol, Swift acted in a schools competition that was judged by the director of Bristol Old Vic, who urged him to take it up professionally. Swift, who spent 10 years at the RSC before breaking into television, also acted in such series as Peak Practice, Born and Bred and The Old Guys. When work dried up, which was not often, he avoided any temptation to drink or tendency to depression by "writing music at the piano, playing tennis and watching Arsenal". He died on 1 February 2019 in London, England, UK. Actress Hannelore Elsner arrives for the screening of the movie 'Nobody Wants the Night', during the opening gala of the 65th Berlinale International Film Festival, in Berlin February 5, 2015. 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Born in 1942 in Washington DC, Tork became part of the band with Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith and Davy Jones in the mid-sixties, when they was formed as Americas Beatles counterpart. https://theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/25/rebecca-swift-obituary. Maybe, but I actually prefer the journalists who don't give a shit. England Children: At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. "There's no reason why 1 should talk to you," he snapped, making no attempt to conceal his contempt for the sci-fi show as an unworthy vehicle for his talents. CLIVE SWIFT, the character actor, who has died aged 82, was a stylish, incisive and distinctive member of the original Royal Shakespeare Company in its heyday before becoming a familiar supporting figure on television, notably as the henpecked husband of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances (1990-95). Stories: Swift spent six years playing Richard to Patricia Routledge's Hyacinth, He went on to appear with Roger Lloyd Pack in The Old Guys. We also may change the frequency you receive our emails from us in order to keep you up to date and give you the best relevant information possible. Clive Swift Tribute - Doctor Who Scenes (R.I.P) | Tenakin#CliveSwift #Tribute #CliveSwiftTribute You would think his 1,000,000 would be more that enough ;P. Clive Swift was just being a dick for no reason, but the Bidmead interview was kind of interesting. . But it isn't". "No, shut up. According to Russell T Davies in The Writer's Tale, Mackenzie Crook was nearly cast to play Clive. He can't be that grumpy because he agreed to be interviewed for the Revelation of the Daleks DVD, despite considering it (quite understandably) "the most bizarre entertainment I have ever been part of". When they make no attempt to sugar coat things. Human She rose from a traumatic childhood to become a formidable force of American letters and an inspiration to women, Star of It Aint Half Hot Mum and Never the Twain died on 17 January, aged 88. Died 1 February 2019, in London, aged 82. . And he doesn't appear to have reacted well to new, young 'boss' Graham Williams after being well handled by Hinchcliffe. (PROSE: Rose), Shortly after his meeting with Rose, Clive and his family went on a shopping trip and were in Queen's Arcade when the Autons were activated. EEAAO star gives tearful speech after historic win, The best Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom deals. You gave great copy.. . Send feedback to whovian@cuttingsarchive.org, http://cuttingsarchive.org/images/9/9f/2019-02-05_Times.jpg, http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php?title=Clive_Swift&oldid=27916. But staying in the role for 7 years..don't think anyone else could or should do that. "Do people shout 'Richard' at you in the street?". 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